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There is a story about
a man and wife who were celebrating their golden wedding
anniversary-fifty years of married life. Having spent most of the
day with relatives and friends at a big party given in their honor,
they were back home again. They decided, before retiring, to have a
little snack of tea with bread and butter. They went into the
kitchen, where the husband opened up a new loaf of bread and handed
the end piece (the heel) to his wife. Whereupon she exploded! She
said, "For fifty years you have been dumping the heel of the bread
on me. I will not take it anymore; this lack of concern for me and
what I like." On and on she went in the bitterest of terms, for
offering her the heel of the bread. The husband was absolutely
astonished at her tirade. When she had finished he said to her
quietly, "But it's my favorite piece."
--James S. Hewett, Illustrations Unlimited (Wheaton: Tyndale House
Publishers, Inc, 1988), p. 332.
